Category Archives: Scaling Agile
Forecast Says: Your Forecast is History
You may have a well-articulated, strategic roadmap BUT how, when and what value you deliver against that roadmap can fluctuate. A benefit of iterative delivery and deliberate learning cycles is that product teams can tweak or radically change output based … Continue reading
Agile and Beyond: A Right-Sized, Value-Rich Conference
VersionOne was proud to sponsor and exhibit at the 4th Annual Agile and Beyond conference on Saturday, March 9th in Dearborn, Michigan. We talked with many project managers, developers, business analysts and directors about their past, current or future agile … Continue reading
Agile in Miami is Off and Running
Miami, Florida is a beautiful city. The beaches. The food. The vibrant culture. Lebron James. Add a growing agile group to the list of pluses for this tropical metropolis. Thanks to an eager set of individuals at a recent AgilePalooza … Continue reading
5 Things We Learned at AgilePaloozas in 2012
2012 was a great year of learning, collaboration and fun at AgilePalooza. We’ve crossed this great nation of ours, bringing stimulating talks on release planning, retrospectives, Lean thinking and more to project managers, developers, ScrumMasters and executives. As we retrospect, … Continue reading
Managing the Middle Manager Conundrum
Attending Agile 2012 and meeting many practitioners and soon-to-be practitioners of agile development was an awesome experience. The opportunity to network and talk shop with a wide range of individuals cannot be duplicated. Many of the conversations re-opened an age … Continue reading
If You Could Say 1 Thing Anonymously to Your President About Agile What Would it Be?
This is a new question we’ve added to our annual State of Agile Development Survey, launched just over a week ago, and I’m chuckling at some of the answers coming in. I thought I’d share some of the good ones. … Continue reading
Making Sprint Retrospectives Really Effective (Part 2 of 4)
Reaching team consensus on the Top 3 factors that worked well and the Top 3 most problematic factors: Before the Sprint Retrospective session, the ScrumMaster should collect each Scrum team member’s individual Top 3 observations in both categories listed below: … Continue reading
Does ‘Who Makes a Good ScrumMaster’ Have Much To Do With Their Current/Past Role?
Recently I’ve read a few blog posts and forum posts discussing, ‘what role do the best ScrumMasters come from?’ One post in particular suggested that perhaps Technical Leads are the best candidates because they have deep knowledge of the technical … Continue reading
VersionOne Turns it Up to 10: Three Things You Never Knew About Agile in ‘02 (Part 1)
VersionOne Turns it Up to 10: Three Things You Never Knew About Agile in ‘02 It all started on July 1, 2002 in a shady hotel room with two people – myself and our CEO Robert Holler. Don’t worry; … Continue reading
How Can Team Members Help Create an Effective, Self-Organizing Agile Team?
In my last post, I took a stab at answering the question, “How do we change from individuals in workgroups to effective, self-organizing teams?” Through my discovery and reflection on that topic, I turned my focus toward the environment of … Continue reading